Part of Hercule Poirot, book 19
First published 2008
Hercule Poirot discovers Mrs Boynton's corpse among Petra's red cliffs. She sits like a bloated Buddha, dead from a fatal injection that left just one small puncture mark on her wrist. Poirot has only twenty four hours to crack the case. He remembers overhearing someone in Jerusalem say she had to be killed. The detective faces a tight deadline as he works to identify which person among the tourists wanted the most hateful woman he had ever encountered dead. Poirot must uncover who delivered the lethal dose and why before time runs out in the ancient city.
Genres: 20th-century, mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: tight-deadline, whodunit
Setting: Jerusalem, Petra
Period: 20th-century
303 pages · Paperback · HarperCollins
Content warnings: death, murder